Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jason Brown

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Tuscon, AZ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002
Jason Brown is an American writer born and raised in Maine. He was a Stegner Fellow and Truman Capote Fellow at Stanford University, where he taught as a Jones Lecturer. Brown has received fellowships from the Yaddo, MacDowell, and from the Saltonsall Foundation. He taught for many years in the M.F.A. program at the University of Arizona and now teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Oregon. He has published two books of short stories, Driving the Heart and Other Stories (Norton/​Random House) and Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work (Open City/​Grove Atlantic). His stories have won several awards and appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Harper’s, TriQuarterly, and other magazines and anthologies. Several of his stories have been performed as part of NPR’s Selected Shorts, and his collection Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work was chosen as a summer reading pick by National Public Radio.

Studios

Wood

Jason Brown worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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